Hosford International

Founded in 1867, Emsco-Erie, also known as Emsco Group, manufactures a range of products, such as wooden mop buckets and handles, carpet beaters, crosscut saw handles, cowpokes, buggy whips and other related cleaning items. The company markets more than 10 product lines, including snowboards, lawn and garden tools, hose reels and functional children items. It manufactures products in a variety of venues, such as metal stamping, injection molding, staple setting, and textile and wood handle conversion. Emsco-Erie maintains manufacturing and distribution facilities. The company operates a sales and marketing department that has a staff of over 200 sales representatives. It works in association with food, drug, discount and home improvement marketers in the United States.

Lebanese immigrant Albert George, along with other family members, bought some second-hand cone-baking machines and started the George & Thomas Cone Company in 1918. That company is still owned and operated by the George family, together with the employees, and is now known as Joy Cone Company. It is one of the largest ice cream cone companies in the world, baking over 1.5 billion cones per year. The company owns and operates its own fleet of trucks that distribute cones throughout Canada and the United States. Joy Cone Company manufactures cones from two facilities in the U.S., one in Pennsylvania and one in Arizona. The plant in Hermitage, Pa., offers tours for up to 15 persons from August through November. Joy Cone Company maintains corporate headquarters in Hermitage.

Alliance Plastics is a manufacturer and distributor of protection and finishing components for a range of industries and applications. The company operates offices in more than 10 locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. It works with a team of over 200 staff members. Alliance Plastics provides products, such as caps, plugs, cable ties and clips, fasteners, finishing components, and pipe and flange protection equipment. It also offers TectorGuard hose protection, bundling and securing systems. The company is a part of Filtrona, which is one of the leading companies that provides plastic and fiber products in the United States. Alliance Plastics operates more than 35 manufacturing facilities and over 35 distribution outlets and sales offices and research facilities in nearly 20 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia.